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Breaking was introduced at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as an optional (temporary) sport. Despite the United States being the birthplace of breakdancing, the sport is not set to be included at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; on its omittance in the latter, the IOC's sports director Kit McConnell stated that "It's up to each local organizing committee to determine which ...
Cosmopolitan was on the scene at breakdancing’s *first-ever* Olympic qualifier competition this summer to get the lowdown on the category from some of its top names and judges. Read on for a ...
"The breaking competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games comprises two events where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will face off in spectacular solo battles," read Olympics.com's writeup of the ...
T he sport of breaking—competitive breakdancing—will make its Olympic debut in Paris. Yes, breaking has come a long way from an early-‘80s pop-culture fad that seemed to go the way of the ...
Quota places are allocated to the athletes by name. These qualification spots will be awarded as follows: [2] [3] World Championships – The B-Boy and B-Girl champion at the 2023 WDSF World Championships, scheduled for 23 to 24 September in Leuven, Belgium, will obtain a quota place, respecting a two-breaker NOC limit per gender.
Grace Sun "Sunny" Choi was born in November 10, 1988 [1] in Cookeville, Tennessee, as the third of four children.Her parents, Jung-In and Kyung-Ju Choi, migrated from Daegu, South Korea for doctoral-level study at the University of Tennessee, with Jung-In going on to teach statistics at Tennessee Tech at the time of Sunny's birth.
Breaking, or break-dancing, is making its way from The Bronx to the Olympic stage in Paris for the first time in 2024 as an official Olympic event.
Liu Qingyi (simplified Chinese: 刘清漪; traditional Chinese: 劉清漪; pinyin: Liú Qīngyī; born 19 October 2005), [1] also known as 671, is a Chinese breakdancer who represented China in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, [2] and won the bronze medal in the B-Girls competition.